Damn, that hits hard

Playing roms on a Switch means you’re NOT emulating, that’s the reason people jailbreak them. Plenty of Switch games run like crap on a Steam Deck, and the more demanding games are difficult to get running at all via emulation.

I’m not saying a jailbroken Switch is the best option, I’m just saying there are pros and cons. Honestly, I’d recommend OP get a cheap desktop PC with a budget GPU instead of a Steam Deck, unless they need it to be portable. It would perform better for emulation.

Sure, the sky is the limit. You could also just get a motherboard, processor, and power supply, plug everything in and shove it in whatever container you want.

The biggest thing to worry about is DIMM vs SODIMM. The latter is much smaller, and probably what most mini PCs will use. So if you have full sized DIMM RAM, you might have trouble finding a mini PC that will work.

And even if it is the right size, you’ll still want to make sure that your motherboard supports your specific RAM clock speeds.

Plenty of barebones mini PC’s that you can get for relatively cheap (under $200 or even close to $100). “Barebones” is a good keyword to search for because that means it doesn’t include RAM and a drive.

Look for an N100 or N200 processor if you want something that’s very small and power efficient (but it won’t be powerful enough for many games). Or, look for whatever fits your budget.

Edit: Oh! And make sure whatever you get is compatible with your RAM! What type of RAM do you have?

Right, but it’s best to call that “source available” so the pedants don’t crucify you 🙄

Right, it’s trying to highlight unread comments but it’s bad at doing that job. Lol.

So…it’s an iPhone clone, with the stupid pill-shaped camera hole and everything. Gross.

Americans with Android are stuck using SMS half the time because Americans with iPhones are literally holding us back. If it wasn’t for iMessage, we would have ditched SMS years ago, but when you suggest to an iPhone user that they use something other than iMessage their head explodes, apparently.

My fat ass would also like an answer to this question

No

Pretty sure it’s taking a dump right at the moment the pic was taken

I mostly use a VPN for torrents, and not much else honestly. And Mullvad isn’t very friendly to torrenters (for good reasons), they don’t allow port forwarding.

Doesn’t seem to have swipe typing, which is important for me. Otherwise it’s great.

Right, you can’t be 100% sure, but there are measures that they can take to make you trust them a bit more. For example, I believe Mullvad runs systems in RAM and keeps no records of who uses what. You don’t even have to give them your email address; they don’t want it. And they submit to regular audits (provided you trust the auditors).

Also, if the client matters, then don’t use their client. Use the OpenVPN client instead.

It’s pretty common for companies like that to advertise that their app is 100% open source, but then stop short of guaranteeing anything beyond that. In PIA’s case, I would point out that their infrastructure (the servers that they use to route your traffic) are closed, so they could be doing literally anything in there. Their desktop client being open source doesn’t actually do much to guarantee your privacy.

If you want real transparency, Mullvad is the only real option: https://mullvad.net/en/help/open-source

Having said that, I personally use PIA because it’s cheaper and I don’t care enough.

American “cheese product” can fuck right off. Gouda melts just as well and actually tastes like…you know…cheese.

Element picker is a little less user friendly, you pick elements and then you have to decide what to do with them. I think you have to click “create” for each element that you “pick”. Element zapper is the simpler tool, you just click things and they go away.

Yeah fair enough, if a website is going to be this annoying then you could argue we just shouldn’t go there.

But I still want to spread the gospel of Ublock Origin where I can. The zapper feature can be a little finicky, depending on how a site is structured. It helps to move the mouse around and try to find a spot that covers the entire area that you want to get rid of.

You’re right, but there’s still hope! Use the element zapper to get rid of it: https://lemmy.world/comment/5775350